May 23, 2007  

    The trees we planted last year are leaving and blooming.  The Crimson King Norway Maple has dark red leaves, and the Redbud tree has blossoms growing directly out of its trunk and branches.  We planted a new tree this week—an American Elm that is immune to the Dutch elm disease.  I've been pulling up weeds in the lawn, some with roots a foot long!  Many of the dandelions (which I don't pull up) have a tiny bee on them.
    Lynn sang the solo at church on Mother's Day.  She looked beautiful in her white suit and corsage.  With some warm evenings we're able to enjoy the screened porch at the end of the day.  Sometimes we climb to the top of a point that overlooks the brook.
    The other day a female hummingbird landed six feet away in the hydrangea bush.  She stayed there until I went and got the camera.  She seems shorter and puffier than the ones we see at the feeder.  Maybe she's a juvenile.
    Every week I've been refinishing the flooring under one of the pews in church.  This is the tenth, with four more to go.  The varnishing takes only five minutes to apply each of the three coats.  It's the sanding (one hour) and vacuuming the dust (half an hour) that take most of the time.
    Last night the Souhegan Valleyaires sang the Star Spangled Banner for the Manchester Fisher Cats—a AA Eastern League affiliate for the Toronto Blue Jays.  The Souhegan Valleyaires, that Lynn and I sing with, are an auditioned group from the Souhegan Valley Chorus.
    Today Lynn finished the quilt she has been making for Lynn and John Roy.  It will hang in the window between their kitchen and guest room.

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Quote for the Day - "Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething."   Mark Twain